The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (123 page)
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Authors: David Mccullough
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Sax, Adolphe,
248
saxophone,
248
Scènes de la Vie de Bohémienne
(Murger),
221
School of Athens
(Raphael),
62
School of Design for Women,
341
Scott, Walter,
72
Second Bull Run, Battle of,
243
collapse of,
259
Sedan, Battle of,
259
Bennett’s praise of,
148
changing moods of,
46–47
sightseeing boats of,
247
Stowe’s observation of,
214
Sumner’s anti-slavery speech in,
223–24
Senones,
25
Shaw, Robert Gould,
430
Sheridan, Philip,
259
finishing of,
453–54
pedestal of,
454
plaster cast of,
439–40
in Salon exhibition,
439–40
size and scale of,
436–37
studio for,
436–37
in Universal Exposition of 1900,
448–49
unveiling of,
453–54
She Who Bathes Her Knees,
169
ships,
11–13
steam engines of,
139–40
Sichel, Jules,
119
Siddons, Sarah,
79
Simmons, Edward,
399
Sirius
,
139–40
Sketch Book, The
(Irving),
12–13
Sketches of Paris: In Familiar Letters to His Friends; by an American Gentleman in Paris
(Sanderson),
58
Skinner, Thomas Harvey,
150
slavery,
195–96
Sumner’s denunciation of,
223–24
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
and,
211–12
Smithson, James,
180
Société Anonyme des Artistes, La,
see
Impressionists
soda fountains,
248
Soeurs de la Charité,
111
Soir, Le
,
304
Spotsylvania, Battle of,
278
Spy, The
(Cooper),
70
Stamaty, Camille,
164
Stendhal,
410
Sterne, Laurence,
37
Stevenson, Fanny,
409
Stevenson, Mary,
see
Cassatt, Mary
Stewart, A. T.,
342
Stowe, Calvin,
212
European tour of,
217
Louvre visits of,
215–17
Raft of the Medusa
admired by,
216–17
Seine observed by,
214
in Tuileries Gardens,
213
Stratton, Charles,
see
Thumb, Tom
Strauss, Johann,
247
Strutting Pigeon,
168
Studio, The
(Homer),
250
Sturges, Jonathan,
428
Subercaseaux, Madame Ramón,
391–92
Sully
,
98–99
Sumner, Charles,
3
,
9
,
10
,
15
,
62
,
97
,
199
,
211
,
223–29
,
232
,
235
,
236
,
240
,
313
,
424
Appleton’s relationship with,
226–29
on arrival in France,
20–21
description of,
4
first Paris impressions of,
30–31
at Notre-Dame Cathedral,
39
Paris convalescence of,
225–31
racial insight of,
131–32
slavery opposed by,
223–24
statue of,
360
in trans-Atlantic voyage,
13–14
women’s relationship with,
227
Supper at Emmaus
(Titian),
91
Swager, Charles,
298
Sweden,
269
Sylphide, La
(ballet),
120
description of,
49
Willis’s praise of,
49–50
Taglioni, Philippe,
49
Tarbell, Edmund,
411
British patent sought for,
153
daily life and,
248
Morse code devised for,
152
Morse’s apparatus for,
151–52
operating line opened for,
159
telephone,
406
Temps, Le
,
406–7
Terry, Ellen,
420
Thalberg, Sigmund,
164–65
Thayer, Abbot,
335
theater,
48–51
Emerson’s enthusiastic view of,
48
Théâtre des Variétés,
89
Théâtre du Vaudeville,
172
Théâtre Italien,
48–49
Third Republic,
259
prosperity of,
407
Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment,
243
Thoreau, Henry,
218
Thursby, Emma,
336
Tintoretto,
344